Citizen station DW8300DW8300
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.8 mi away/638 ft/70 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Severe Thunderstorm Watch, in full
Alert. A Severe Thunderstorm Watch is in force for Middletown until 8 PM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 29 degrees cooler: a high of 53° after 82° today.
Now. Middletown is 76° and mostly clear at 2 PM. The dew point is 69°, so the air feels oppressive. Light breeze from the southwest at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 81° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 47° by 8 AM, with some cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 63°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 53°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:30 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:26 PM. The next full Moon is Monday, Oct 26. After dark, look for Saturn, bright in the east-southeast. A planet shines with a steady light where the stars around it twinkle. The Orionids meteor shower is active, peaking around Oct 21: at its peak, up to about 20 meteors an hour can be seen from a dark site. The day is 11 hours 10 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 PM in Middletown, Maryland.
Air quality
Index 19, good, led by ozone. Read at 2 PM from its reporting area, Maryland Piedmont (MD), 12 miles off.
Good each day through Wed Oct 21, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 19, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 8 AM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
0.19 in in the last 24 hours, 0.21 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 1 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Middletown, MarylandReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Middletown, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.5 miles away.
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Citizen station DW8300DW8300
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.8 mi away/638 ft/70 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
IS 70 WB at Mt. Phillip RoadMD131
Beside a road/3.5 mi away/502 ft/66 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/8.7 mi away/302 ft/266 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Antietam National BattlefieldANBM2
At a river or reservoir gauge/12.0 mi away/476 ft/92 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Middletown 0.6 NEMD-FR-51
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.5 mi away/617 ft/49 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Hagerstown 1EHGCM2
At a cooperative observer's station/16.3 mi away/541 ft/27 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 8.7 mi from Middletown, Maryland. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 1:47 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 1,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
71.6 F with a dew point of 69.8 F, 94 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 400 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,000 ft.
From the south southwest (200 degrees) at 9 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale.
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Snow on the ground
21 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.